Schubert’s An Silvia in English translation

You might be asking yourself why I would need to post a translation of a very famous song. Well, if you look this song up in an CD booklet or book of translations, almost all of them give the Shakespeare original. But that isn’t right. An Silvia (To Sylvia) D 891 (1826) by Schubert is not simply a translation of the Shakespeare. Lieder singers need to have a more detailed, word-for-word, translation. Here is my best effort.

An Silvia (To Sylvia) D 891 (1826) by Schubert

from “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” by William Shakespeare
(Translation: Eduard von Bauernfeld)